This is the readme instructions for the data files of Bertrand, Marianne and Adair Morse. "Trickle-Down Consumption." Review of Economics and Statistics.

Our analysis covered a number of datasets. Please refer to the text for the context. The files herein allow for reproducing the analysis of all of the tables. We list below the data source followed by the Stata dataset (where allowed) and do file names corresponding to all of our tables.

1)Consumer Expenditure Survey

stata data file: 
BertrandMorseTrickleCEXData.dta

stata do files: 
BertrandMorseTrickleAnalyis.do
BertrandMorseTrickleExpenditureCategoryAnalysis.do

Supplemental data files needed to run code:
elasticityall_erik.dta
visibility_erik.dta

2) Bankruptcy Data

stata data file:

stata do file:
bankruptcy_analysis.do

3) PSID Data
Please note that for contractual reasons, we cannot provide the data directly. However, the variable names correspond to data files individual researchers can access at:  https://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/.

stata do file:
psid_analysis.do

4) Voting Data

stata data file:
vote_HR5334.dta

stata do file:
vote_HR5334.do

5) Michigan Survey of Consumers
Please note that for contractual reasons with the University of Michigan, we cannot provide the data directly. We received clearance to have access to state-level identifiers. The variable names correspond to data files available to researchers with clearance from https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/.

stata do file:
michigan_analysis.do





